Town of Tessalit in Mali falls to French
By KRISTA LARSON and BABA AHMEDBy KRISTA LARSON and BABA AHMED, Associated Press?
?A soldier patrols near a burning road block outside the paratrooper camp, home of the former president's Red Beret presidential guard, in Bamako, Mali, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Soldiers from a unit allied with the leader of last year's military coup in Mali stormed the camp of the former president's guard Friday morning, and at least one person was killed and five were wounded, witnesses said. The bloodshed underscores that Mali's military is in disarray and in poor shape to confront without outside help the well-armed Islamists, many of whom have combat experience.(AP Photo/Thomas Martinez)
A soldier patrols near a burning road block outside the paratrooper camp, home of the former president's Red Beret presidential guard, in Bamako, Mali, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Soldiers from a unit allied with the leader of last year's military coup in Mali stormed the camp of the former president's guard Friday morning, and at least one person was killed and five were wounded, witnesses said. The bloodshed underscores that Mali's military is in disarray and in poor shape to confront without outside help the well-armed Islamists, many of whom have combat experience.(AP Photo/Thomas Martinez)
Soldiers patrol near a burning road block outside the paratrooper camp, home of the former president's Red Beret presidential guard, in Bamako, Mali, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Soldiers from a unit allied with the leader of last year's military coup in Mali stormed the camp of the former president's guard Friday morning, and at least one person was killed and five were wounded, witnesses said. The bloodshed underscores that Mali's military is in disarray and in poor shape to confront without outside help the well-armed Islamists, many of whom have combat experience.(AP Photo/Thomas Martinez)
This photo taken Feb. 4, 2013, and released on Feb. 7, 2013, by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows a Rafale jetfighter flying over Mali. Troops from France and Chad moved into Kidal in an effort to secure the strategic north Malian city, a French official said Tuesday, as the international force put further pressure on the Islamic extremists to push them out of their last major bastion of control in the north. (AP Photo/Anthony Jeuland, ECPAD, French Air Force)
GAO, Mali (AP) ? A Malian official says French forces have taken another town in north Mali from Islamic insurgents. They're now in Tessalit.
Aicha Belco Maiga, president of the government body representing the area of Tessalit, confirmed by telephone from her home in the capital Bamako that her town had been retaken by French forces. She is in contact with a colleague in Tessalit.
"Since 8 a.m. this morning, French troops are in Tessalit. They control the entrance to the town, as well as the administrative buildings," said Maiga.
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